Camden / Burlington

Heat pump installation in Burlington, NJ - rebates, sizing and local data

Burlington in numbers

Burlington has 9,993 residents (give or take 36) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US3408920, checked 2026-10-19), about 3,293 people per square mile.

Burlington is about 17 miles from the Census center point for Camden in a straight line and covers 3.035 square miles of land (Census 2024 Gazetteer internal points and land area, https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2024_Gazetteer/, checked 2026-10-19).

Median household income in Burlington is $84,813 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US3408920, checked 2026-10-19); many state and utility heat pump rebate programs set higher incentive tiers for income-qualifying households, so the household income on the application, not the town median, decides which level applies.

3,293 people per square mile puts Burlington in suburban density, where the outdoor unit usually sits in a side yard and the noise is not an issue for neighbors.

Multi-family first

42% of Burlington homes are single-family detached, 8% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 17% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US3408920, checked 2026-10-19).

38% of Burlington homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US3408920, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 42% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.

Burlington has 22 points fewer detached houses than Burlington County overall (64%) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US34005, checked 2026-10-19).

Heating fuel in Burlington

Of the 3,756 occupied homes in Burlington, 70% heat with natural gas, 4% with heating oil, 21% with electricity and 3% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US3408920, checked 2026-10-19).

Gas heats 70% of Burlington against electricity at 21%, so most quotes here are a partial-home system that carries the shoulder seasons and the summer while the gas furnace handles the coldest nights, or a whole-home system when the house is ready for it.

Burlington has 3 points less oil heat than Burlington County as a whole, where 7% of homes burn oil, and 2 points more electric heat than the county's 19% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US34005, checked 2026-10-19).

Your utility and the rebate

No electric utility is on file for Burlington on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.

Age of the stock

Burlington has 4,208 housing units, 41% built before 1940 and 80% before 1980, with 10% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3408920, checked 2026-10-19).

Burlington has 31 points more pre-1940 homes than Burlington County as a whole (10%) and 8 points fewer homes built after 2000 than the county's 18% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US34005, checked 2026-10-19). An older stock means more insulation upgrades before the heat pump goes in.

The median Burlington home was built in 1950 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US3408920, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 5.8 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US3408920, checked 2026-10-19).

41% of Burlington homes were built before 1940 and 80% before 1980 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3408920, checked 2026-10-19), so insulation is the first sizing question: an older home leaks more heat per square foot, and the installer runs a room-by-room heat-loss calculation to size the system for what the walls and windows actually hold in, not just the floor plan.

Sizing for Burlington County

Heating design temperature: 10F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Burlington County row, 99% heating, PDF pages 81 to 82 of 141 (Revised 11/11/2020), https://www.energystar.gov/sites/default/files/Design%20Temperature%20Limit%20Reference%20Guide%20(2019%20Ed)%20-%20ENERGY%20STAR%20Single-Family%20New%20Homes_Rev11.pdf, fetched 2026-10-19, 99%.

That 10F figure is the Burlington County cold-day number a Burlington heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 10F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.

Next step

Ask whether the quote is whole-home or partial-home, because with 70% of Burlington on gas and 21% already electric the two paths carry different rebate figures and different sizing.

Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; a Burlington house from before 1940 (41% of the 4,208 units) rarely matches a square-footage rule of thumb.

The form on this page is the follow-up for Burlington. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.

No local contractor is named on this door for Burlington yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.

Where should the follow-up go?

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